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by Jenny Price, UW–Madison Communications Kirin Narayan first decided to write a book about her family when she was 10 years old, a decision she made while growing up in Bombay, the child of an American mother and an Indian father. It was 1970, the year after her 16-year-old brother announced he was quitting school …
Making the college experience more international, forging stronger ties with India, and selling Canadian higher education overseas were among the hot topics at the annual conference of the Canadian Bureau for International Education, which wrapped up here last week. The conference, which attracted 500 academics from around the country, focused on study abroad, international-student recruitment, …
An Initiative of the Division of International Studies The Division of International Studies is pleased to announce a competition for graduate student international field research awards. These awards would enable Ph.D. students to conduct exploratory research abroad in order to develop their dissertation topics and be more competitive for extramural fellowships. A two-step application procedure …
UW–Madison’s growing International Academic Internship program places students in businesses across the globe. By Masarah Van Eyck, UW–Madison Division of International Studies Featured on UW-Business News Wire Prairie du Chien native Megan Bender learned about more than water distribution while serving as an intern with Abbott Fund in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last summer. The …
From The Wall Street Journal, 11/30/2007 One myth dogging the immigration debate is that employers are fibbing (or grossly exaggerating) when they claim that hiring foreign professionals is unavoidable because U.S.-born Ph.D.s are hard to come by. But a new report on doctorates from U.S. universities shows they’re telling the truth, and then some. Foreign-born …
From WMTV News 11/28/2007. Click here to watch the video. Madison: The UW campus is being used as a model for a new university in the middle east. Officials from Kuwait University were on campus Wednesday. The University of Wisconsin is one of only six American colleges being looked at as a model of what …
By Anita Clar, Wisconsin State Journal Dr. Jonathan Patz is an international authority on global warming, and it’s more than an academic study for him. At home in Madison, he has installed solar panels on his house and grocery baskets on his bicycle. He drives a Prius hybrid but bicycles to work. For Patz, who …
Join Jeremi Suri as he reads from his recently published book, Henry Kissinger and the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2007). 7 pm, Thursday, December 6 Borders Books West, 3750 University Avenue, Madison. This is an event of the Division of International Studies’ World Beyond Our Borders reading series. In Henry Kissinger and the American …
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for Global Health (CGH) is pleased to announce the awarding of six educational travel fellowships to UW faculty and staff members. These grants are awarded to CGH affiliates to support international travel related to educational activities, including development for global health courses, initiation of field experiences and field research, and …
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD SENATE PAGE S14277 Nov. 13, 2007 INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, in honor of the eighth annual International Education Week, which runs Monday, November 12 to 16, 2007, I would like to emphasize the importance of international education and exchange programs and the key role they play in strengthening our own …